CBH Group welcomes Senate vote on port exemption

12 March 2015

Following a vote in the Federal Parliament last Thursday (5 March), the CBH Group has won the right for an exemption from the port access code of conduct for grain export terminals. The code aims to help farmers and exporters access critical port infrastructure, regardless of who owns the terminal.

Welcoming the Senate decision, Dr Andy Crane, CEO of the CBH Group and Chair of the BCCM stated, “We’re very pleased now that co-operatives operating ports have an exemption from the highest tier of regulation.”

Dr Crane said that the comprehensive outcome of the Senate vote “provides us certainty within our commercial relationships with those grain exporters and gives them certainty as to the regime in which they are going to be acquiring grain through our network and shipping it. Our abiding task is to provide an open access network for as many buyers of grain as possible. This is another step in the right direction in providing growers with that great competition at their sites,” he concluded.